Red Wheel/Weiser and Hampton Roads Publishing are joining forces as of June 1 in what is being called a distribution relationship but also “a joint operating agreement” according to Red Wheel president Michael Kerber. (Both lines are already warehoused at Books International.) Kerber notes “we’re also combining forces for several back office functions — eliminating duplication on the operations, accounting, and production side.” The companies say they will operate primarily from Red Wheel’s offices in Newburyport and San Francisco. Greg Brandenburgh will oversee the Hampton Roads part of the endeavor, based in San Francisco, and the imprint will publish a […]
Personnel
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At Penguin, Emily Beth Rapoport has been promoted to associate editor for Berkley. Former head of Random House Children’s books, and founder of Lookybook Craig Virden, 56, died yesterday of a pulmonary embolism. Bill Hill, “the driving force behind ClearType” at Microsoft and an early member of their electronic books team under Dick Brass, is leaving the company–and may have been laid off. Hill writes on his blog, “I’ve become convinced over the past couple of years that no one company or browser will make the transition to reading on screen happen. I still believe in eBooks. Amazon has definitely […]
More Changes at S&S Children's
Recently-appointed president and publisher of the Simon & Schuster Children’s division Jon Anderson announced “a number of transitions and consolidations,” reminding employees that “it is incumbent that we are structured in a way that maximizes our opportunities to publish vigorously and with our customary flair, while at the same time reflecting the realities of today’s marketplace.” Publisher of the Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry imprints Emma Dryden will step down to an “advisory role” in which she will still edit authors including Ellen Hopkins, Karma Wilson and Alan Katz, while deputy publisher for Little Simon and Simon Spotlight Frank Totaro […]
People and Awards
Kate Davis has been promoted to associate editor for Putnam and Marian Wood Books, where she has been “deeply involved in Marian’s entire list.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Laura Antonacci has been promoted to marketing associate, education and library. Other PEN award winners include Steve Coll’s THE BIN LADENS for nonfiction,and author of Knockemstiff Donald Ray Pollock for the $35,000 Robert Bingham fellowship for writers.Site list The National Book Foundation presented Innovations in Reading prizes to five recipients, including James Patterson’s ReadKiddoRead.com and the readergirlz blog.
People and Awards
Sheila Keenan joins Abrams tomorrow as senior editor, working on the Abrams ComicArts list, reporting to executive editor Charles Kochman. Most recently she was at Scholastic, where she helped launch their Graphix comics imprint. At the Penguin Group, Allison McLean has been promoted to associate director of publicity for Portfolio and Sentinel. She joined Portfolio in 2002, before the line formally launched. At Little, Brown Children’s, Lauren Hodge has been promoted to assistant editor. Bertelsmann has put Christa Gomez on the company’s supervisory board as employee representative. Aside from two women from the controlling Mohn family, Gomez is the only […]
People and More
Publishing veterans Gretchen Koss and Meghan Walker recently formed themarketing and publicity firm Tandem Literary. They had been colleaguesat Random House until last December at Spiegel & Grau, where Koss wasdirector of publicity and Walker was director of marketing. The newcompany “will work collaboratively to tailor a campaign that complementsthe publisher’s plans and enhances a book’s visibility across a wide variety of platforms.” Author of THE WOMEN’S ROOM Marilyn French, 79, died Saturday of heart failure.NYT obit Cambridge University Press has reduced their plan to cut approximately165 jobs in the UK down to 58 layoffs. Another 25 people have left […]